Motivational Quotes

Action

Act, don't react!

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Best Quotes about Action

Do it now. Then it's done.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio